Royals

Princess Charlotte Meets the Queen, Becomes an Official Citizen

Princess Charlotte isn’t even a week old, and she has already scored a seven-figure recording contract, won a Pulitzer for a book of short stories, and held court for the Queen of England. O.K., only the third one of those actually happened, but just give her a year, and we imagine the first two will come true, as well.

A day after her name was revealed to the world (Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, but you already know that, as your fresh C.E.D. knuckle tattoo makes clear), the Queenvisited her great-granddaughter at Kensington Palace this afternoon, driven in a car from her private estate in Norfolk. Unfortunately there are no photographs from the meeting, though we can only assume and hope the Queen took a whole slew of selfies with Charlotte, which she is now cropping back at her estate, asking Prince Philip which filter to go with. There are a number of shots of the Queen in her car arriving and departing from the palace, in which she looks plaintive and calm, no doubt altered irrevocably by the spirit of Charlotte.

Additionally, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridgeformally registered Charlotte’s birth today, and if you are able to take a look at the occupation field underneath “MOTHER” where Kate’s job is listed as “Princess of the United Kingdom” and not emote visibly in whatever the physical manifestation of “!!!!!!!!!!” is, well then you are a very different person than us. William, who is technically employed as an air ambulance pilot at the moment, is listed here as “Prince of the United Kingdom.” (He is definitely the only person in the world who could plausibly refer to being a prince as his side-hustle.)